supplementary
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Adjective (2)
- functioning in a supporting capacity“the main library and its auxiliary branches”Synonyms: auxiliarysubsidiarysupplementalOpposite primarySimilar secondary
- added to complete or make up a deficiency“produced supplementary volumes”Synonyms: supplementalOpposite subtractiveSimilar additive
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: Cf. F. supplémentaire.
Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume.
Supplemental air Physiology, the air which in addition to the residual air remains in the lungs after ordinary expiration, but which, unlike the residual air, can be expelled; reserve air. — Supplemental bill Equity, a bill filed in aid of an original bill to supply some deffect in the latter, or to set forth new facts which can not be done by amendment. Alexander Mansfield. Burrill Daniel. — Supplementary chords Mathematics, in an ellipse or hyperbola, any two chords drawn through the extremities of a diameter, and intersecting on the curve.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54